Rambus’ Aharon Etengoff looks at the growing challenges of building supercomputers capable of seismic processing.

The NSF is looking for ways to radically change electronic, photonic and acoustic devices, in this week’s top five tech picks from Ansys’ Sandy Adam. Plus, getting a lift from a flying taxi and the potential of neuroprosthetics.

ARM’s Nigel Stephens digs into the details of the recently announced update to the ARMv8-A architecture, the Scalable Vector Extension.